☀ Any Completed Stories About Two Men Taking the Imperial Exams in Ancient Times? Please! ☀有没有双楠，古代参加科举的文（已完结），求求
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I Escaped My Cousin’s House, and My Beloved Spoils Me Rotten 逃出表哥家，我被明郎宠上天
Dual male leads, a cozy, sweet romance with a slow, steady pace. A domineering, talented-in-both-literary-and-martial-arts pursuer who dotes on his husband (Wen Weiming) × a beautiful, affectionate and considerate recipient (Xia Qing) After Xia Qing's father dies of illness, his mother sends him to live with his second aunt, intending for him to marry his second cousin. Once there, Xia Qing works until he's exhausted, runs away, and begs his mother to find him another family. Xia's mother rememb
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I Transmigrated to Another World and Married a Husband to Spoil Him Rotten 穿到异世，娶个夫郎使劲宠
[Two male leads + farming + imperial examinations + devoted to each other + gong protagonist] Warning: There’s a chapter involving adoption as a substitute. Please take note while reading; it isn’t actual adoption. After transmigrating, Zhao Zexun married Tang Yuanyuan, a fair-skinned, beautiful man. Tang Yuanyuan had a sharp tongue. The aunties who liked gossiping behind people’s backs would fall silent the moment they saw him, afraid he’d think they were talking about his family. His fierce re
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A Home Deep in the White Clouds 白云深处有为家
Wu Yong, courtesy name Youwei, is a concubine-born son. His legitimate older brother is Wu Jun, his niece is Wu Qian'er, and her husband is Zhu Jianshen, the famous Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty. This son-in-law has a famous concubine with the surname Wan, named Wan Zhen'er... Wan Tong, courtesy name Zhongming, is a legitimate son and the commander of the Imperial Guards. His older brothers are Wan Fu and Wan Gui, and his brother-in-law is Zhu Jianshen. His older sister is Wan Zhen'er...
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An Apocalypse Powerhouse Transmigrates to Ancient Times and Spoils His Adorable Young Husband 末世大佬，穿越古代娇宠小夫郎
Read this first: Nobody gets redeemed here. People have many sides, and going from arrogant to obsequious is human nature. That's why they say, "Once you're successful, you'll find that everyone around you is a good person." Zhao Ye's family treats him badly at first, then fawns over him once he makes it big. That's not a redemption arc: he gets rich, and he doesn't cut ties with them either. [Two male leads + transmigration with the body + seme protagonist + sweet romance and mutual devotion +
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Transmigrating to Ancient Times: An Apocalypse Big Shot Spoils His Little Husband 穿越古代之末世大佬霸宠小夫郎
One-on-one, mutually devoted, space and wood-type dual abilities Yuan Lang, a powerful survivor in the apocalypse who possesses both a personal space and wood-type abilities, accidentally transmigrates to the turbulent Great Yan Dynasty. He saves Song Zi’an, an older unmarried male spouse from Mangshan Village in a border city. As they spend time together, they fall for each other and become husbands. They had hoped to live a simple life of “two people under one roof, sharing three meals and all
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After Transmigrating into a Book with 10 Billion in Supplies, I Raise a Husband in a Farming Novel 囤货百亿穿书后，种田文里养夫郎
[Two Male Leads + Top-Led Romance + 1v1 + Both Pure] [Homesteading + Pocket Dimension + Spirit Spring + Refugee Flight + Food + Business + Getting Rich + Infrastructure] Xiao Li died in the apocalypse alongside the ability users who had surrounded him. After his death, he transmigrated to the Great Zhou dynasty, a dynasty that never existed in history, and became a young man cursed to bring misfortune, disowned and cast out by his own parents. The young man shared his name: Xiao Li, eighteen yea
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Transmigrating to Ancient Times to Pamper My Husband 穿到古代宠夫郎
[Two male leads + ancient farming life + sweet romance] The village's big fool has married the despised young man from the Xu family! The villagers sighed, convinced the two would have a hard life ahead of them. But after a while, the fool was no longer foolish and had even learned to read, while the young man set up a stall and started a business. The couple's life was thriving. The uncle who coveted their land, the men who lusted after the young man, and the village chief who plotted against t
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The Frail Scholar's Sweet and Charming Little Husband 病弱书生的乖俏小夫郎
[Two Male Leads + Transmigration + Historical Romance + Imperial Exams] After transmigrating, everything had changed. Lu Xiao felt his flat stomach and took in his frail body, then couldn't help rolling his eyes and silently crying out: This world is so unfair to me! But he was already here, so he might as well make the best of it. Then Lu Xiao was ordered around by the Lu family again. His mouth twitched. This wasn't something he could just put up with. There was no way he could silently endure
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Reborn as a Beautiful Lad, I Find My Happy Ending with a Young Scholar 穿成貌美哥儿，我和小书生he了
[Early on, it’s family life and doing business; later, court politics. Mutual devotion, younger top (five-year age gap), a bit of raising him, slow burn, and incredibly sweet!] "A softhearted, optimistic bottom who’s a bit of a chatterbox and doesn’t realize he’s seductive, and a ruthless, possessive, exceptionally mature top with maxed-out brains and brawn" Liu Le, a university student, transmigrates one day into the body of a young man in the Great Zhou dynasty, and inexplicably finds himself
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The CEO Transmigrates to Another World: Takes the Imperial Exams and Dotes on His Husband 霸总穿越异世：考科举宠夫郎
[Dual male leads, both devoted to one another‼️ farming + seme lead + husband + sweet romance + kids + imperial examinations + building wealth + everyday life] Chu Mofei is a domineering CEO who somehow chokes to death while drinking water. When he wakes up, he finds that he has transmigrated to another world, into a dynasty that never existed in his history books, the Dayu Dynasty. Chu Mofei can only exclaim that this is absurd. But since he’s here, he might as well make the best of it. Chu Mof
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Imperial Exams: Sir, Your Son Just Scored Six Perfects in a Row 科举：老爷，少爷他连中六元了
One heroine + no System + lighthearted pacing A thorough understanding of the world is knowledge, and social savvy is good writing. Ren Junjie, a history graduate, suddenly finds himself in an unfamiliar world as the eldest legitimate son of the richest family in Xinchang County. A former wastrel, he turns over a new leaf and marries a lovely young wife. He rests every other day and works on the days in between, studying harder and striving to improve. With his deep knowledge of history, he purs
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I’m a Laid-Back Prince, So Stop Sending Your Men to Their Deaths 本王很咸鱼，你们别送人头了
Su Congli transmigrated. To stay alive, he studied day and night and threw himself into the imperial examinations. Who could have guessed? At the provincial exam: “What are you staring at, chief examiner?” At the metropolitan exam: “Why do these examiners all seem so strange?” At the palace exam: “Oh! Isn’t that guy sitting in the throne hall the one who stares at me every night?” Emperor Qiyuan prided himself on being a wise ruler of his age, blessed with extraordinary fortune. Who knew he’d ru
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My Sweet, Well-Behaved Husband 我的乖巧小夫郎
(The author's first book. Not very good.) Transmigration + husband + imperial exams + sweet romance + everyday life Wang Yu transmigrates into an unfamiliar dynasty. When he wakes up, he finds he has a wife, someone of a third gender he has never heard of, called a ge'er. He marvels at the wonders of creation. An eighteen-year-old body, a thirty-year-old soul, and a sixteen-year-old wife. Wang Yu holds his forehead and sighs. What a mess! In the years that follow, he cherishes his husband with a
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Transmigration: After Picking Up a Handsome Husband, I Was Sold 穿越：捡到俏夫郎后，我真香了
[Single-minded farmer and food hoarder. Devoted husband. Handsome x frank, clingy beauty] Xu Haorui survived for nearly ten years in the apocalypse, only to die while escorting supplies. He never expected that when he opened his eyes again, he would be reborn in another world. All he wanted this time was to look after his little plot of land and protect his food supply. (Not a chance!) One day, just after recovering from his injuries, Xu Haorui went up the mountain and found an unconscious young
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I Want to Quit My Official Post and Farm Every Day 每天都想辞官种田
Shen Zhuo died in a car accident and transmigrated to another world, where he was rescued by a young man from the Qiao family. Rumor had it that the Qiao boy was destined to bring misfortune to his entire family. Wasn't he unlucky and ugly, too? And wasn't he nearly twenty with no one willing to marry him? And now some scoundrels were slandering him, hoping to force him into marriage? Shen Zhuo waved a hand. He wasn't about to let anyone bully his lifesaver! Who said no one wanted the Qiao boy?
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[Farming] Building Wealth with the Cute Spirit Who Tricked Me into Marriage [种田]带着骗婚的可爱精发家致富
Lu Feng transmigrated and, from the start, was tricked into marrying a young man. The little fellow was short and skinny, blinking his big eyes with tears in them as he did his best to sell himself. Honestly... ...he was freaking adorable! Warmhearted citizen Lu Feng steeled himself and went through with the marriage! If the boy wanted to stay, then he could stay. At worst, Lu Feng would raise him like a younger brother. With a penniless household and a young boy to care for, what could he do? R
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Transmigrate to a Leisurely, Happy Life 穿越之悠闲的幸福生活
[Two male leads + not a wish-fulfillment story + quiet daily life + no heroine + no angst + pocket dimension + one-on-one romance] A newbie author’s slow-burn story, written at an elementary-school level. If you love overpowered protagonists with every cheat under the sun, think carefully before jumping in! The male lead is a single man who stays alive through dialysis. He gets hit by a car while saving someone, dies, and transmigrates into the body of a young man with the same name and surname
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This Top Scholar Plays by His Own Rules 这个状元路子有点野
[Farming + imperial examinations + alternate history + lighthearted] My Parents Flipped the Table and Quit, So I Want to Take the Imperial Exams Too Just as Wang Xuezhou was about to reach the peak of his life, he transmigrated. The good news: in this life, his parents were loving, and his siblings got along. The bad news: the whole family was pinching pennies to fund his eldest uncle's studies. They had next to nothing and were living on coarse grain and wild greens. But before he could flip t
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The Scheming Chief Minister and His Healing, Sweet Husband 腹黑首辅和他的治愈系小甜夫
[Dual Male Leads + Political Scheming + Mutual Devotion + Food + Comeback Face-Slapping] (scheming, dark-hearted playboy top x gifted cook, sunny bottom) Mu Jiuyun, the cold-hearted, scheming CEO of the Mu Group who loved nothing more than stirring up trouble, transmigrates and gets himself a male wife. His young husband, Yue Chen, has a radiant smile and incredible cooking skills. At first, Ninth Master Mu doesn't care. But before long, Yue Chen has spoiled both his appetite and his heart, and
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Transmigrate to Get Promoted, Get Rich, and Spoil My Husband 穿越之升官发财宠夫郎
A domineering CEO from the 21st century gets into a car accident on his way to work. When he wakes up, he has transmigrated into Gu Qingshan, the infamous village thug of Daxi Village! He also has a poor little husband whose life is full of hardship. Domestic abuse? Absolutely not! Gu Qingshan: “I'm the perfect husband!” Zhouzhou: “You beat me three times a day.” Gu Qingshan: “I'll give you a good life!” Zhouzhou: “You're going to sell me for money.”
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After Becoming an Early-Death Background Character, a Husband Fell from the Sky 穿成早死背景板后，天上掉夫郎了
[Two male leads + transmigration to another world + imperial examinations + husband] From the start, Zhou Wang nearly died on his very first day after transmigrating to another world, right in the middle of a river. Transmigration itself isn’t a problem. The problem is that he didn’t just transmigrate, he also transmigrated into a book. He has no money, and he’ll have to earn his own scholarly honors by taking the exams. Meanwhile, the original protagonist is watching him like a hawk, ready to t
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From the Start, a Scholar Husband: My Spouse Is Rich and Handsome 开局秀才郎：夫郎他有钱有颜
Gu Yanzhou had just received his admission letter from a top university when an accident sent him away. When he opened his eyes again, he was a newlywed sixteen-year-old scholar with no money. A few ramshackle rooms, three mu of poor land, and a sickly mother whose eyes had gone blind from crying. But most shocking of all, there was a fair-skinned beauty sitting by his bed... his male wife?! Su Yunzhi, his “husband,” was not only a ge’er, but also came with a generous dowry. Gu Yanzhou, screamin
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What a Strong Husband! He Raises Pigs to Fund My Imperial Exams 夫郎壮哉！杀猪供我考科举
Duan Yanzhi transmigrates into the body of a scholar who can't lift a load or carry a weight. His husband is a butcher who spends all day swinging a knife, breaking bones, and trimming meat. He's incredibly strong and can easily hoist Old Duan onto his shoulder. So Duan Yanzhi, who used to be a lowly editor in his previous life, settles into a cozy life with his husband and children. The only problem is that his husband is far too ambitious and keeps insisting he take the imperial exams. With no
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A Groom to Bring Good Fortune: My Scholar Husband Is So Charming! 冲喜夫郎：科举相公真香了！
A frail, aloof scholar on the imperial-examination track, Cheng Yanzhou: A poor scholar who coughs up blood and faints after staying up late to study. A fortune-teller says he needs a wedding to ward off bad luck and prolong his life. When he wakes, he discovers he has a husband. He plans to recover and then divorce him, but gradually finds himself touched by his sincerity. "At first I thought he was uncouth. Later, I was worried even carrying a bowl of medicine would make his arms ache." A pra
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A Farmer’s Son’s Daily Struggle to Succeed in the Imperial Exams 农家子科举奋斗日常
Born into a farming family in an unknown dynasty, Zhao Jue looked at his tiny arms and legs and thought, Farming was out of the question. In this age where scholars ranked above farmers, artisans, and merchants, and learning was considered the noblest pursuit, he’d better work hard at his studies…
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From Peasant Roots to Sixfold Top Scholar in the Imperial Exams 穿成泥腿子，一路科举连中六元
[The short drama adaptation is now streaming] A modern SSS-rank researcher dies suddenly and transmigrates to the Great Xing Dynasty. His health is so poor that he's not allowed to pick rice in the fields until he's six. Sunstruck and light-headed, Li Jing decides that farming with this body is a risky business, so he immediately resolves to study for the imperial examinations. That's what he's good at; the transplanting can be left to the professionals! The following year, now named Li Yiqing,
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My Clan Raised Me to Greatness, So I Gifted Them Purple Robes 全族扶我青云志，我赠族人朱紫袍
After dying suddenly from overwork, workaholic Chen Yan is reborn as the only son of a newly born provincial graduate in the Great Liang Dynasty. His father is successful, so Chen Yan promptly decides to lie flat and enjoy the good life, with food brought to him and clothes laid out for him. But when he learns at the age of six that he was switched at birth with a farmer's child, his life takes a turn. The day the fake young master returns to the Chen family, he goes out to work in the fields an
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The Radiant Top Scholar 科举之皎皎状元郎
[Farming + imperial examinations + secret identity] After an accident involving a flowerpot, Li Yi transmigrated to the Great Feng Dynasty and became a five-year-old boy in Li Family Village. One day, his parents came up with a new plan for his future: they wanted to send him to a private school to learn a few characters. But Li Yi thought, If I work hard, shouldn't I be able to earn a title in the imperial examinations?
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The Poor Scholar's Rise 寒门贵子
After transmigrating into the body of a penniless scholar, Jiang Feng thought about how his computer science degree from his previous life was utterly useless here… Then it occurred to him: “Of all pursuits, studying is the noblest. I’ll just have to grit my teeth and take the imperial exams!” He kept going, and when he suddenly looked back, he had risen to the highest offices, expanded the empire’s borders, and built an unprecedented legacy! P.S. The new book, A Poor Scholar of the First Rank,
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Master Calligrapher? Poet Immortal? Chief Minister? That's Right, I'm All of Them 书圣？诗仙？首辅？没错，都是我
In his previous life, Cui Xian was a PhD in Chinese Language and Literature from a top-tier university. In this life, he transmigrates to ancient times into a poor family with humble origins. There’s a destitute household, a pregnant mother, older siblings still young, a father who has failed the imperial exams six times, and a grandmother whose obsession with her son placing high in the imperial examinations has driven her to delusion. And then there’s Cui Xian, who is only eight years old. Cui
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The Top Scholar of the Farming Village 农门状元
[Single heroine, semi-fictionalized Tang Dynasty] In an era when the great aristocratic clans looked down on the imperial family, Zhao Quan was born to a farming family and entered school carrying the hopes of his parents and six older brothers. Farming was out of the question: even the village head’s family had no food to spare… So he had no choice but to take the imperial exams and become an official.
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I Strive for the Imperial Exams, But My Slacker Dreams Never Change 努力考科举，咸鱼梦想从未改变
[Imperial exams + everyday life + lighthearted] Lu Yang, a rich second-generation heir, wakes up one day as the youngest and most cherished son of the Lu family. This youngest son is a scholar, yet selfish and self-centered, turning a blind eye to his family's sacrifices and caring only about his own future. Lu Yang may be a slacker with little conscience, but he knows who's good to him. He keeps his dream of being a slacker tucked away and works hard to pass the imperial exams, hoping to become
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No System? I’ll Still Become the Top Scholar and Grand Secretary 没有系统？我照样考状元当首辅
[No golden finger + No pocket dimension + Heartwarming family + No ridiculous characters] [The male lead works hard and climbs the ranks one step at a time through his own efforts] [The male lead is devoted; the female lead appears fairly late. The story begins with the imperial examinations and later moves into officialdom] [No forced stupidity, no self-righteous saint, and no fake innocent heroine] Xu Xingfeng, a county-level civil servant in a twenty-first-century town, suddenly finds himself
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A Young Doctor Travels from the Present to Ancient Times 今穿古之小大夫
Someone who had long since made peace with life and death could face anything with complete indifference. But... Do you even know how to take care of a child? Look how scrawny this little one is! Can you even support a family? Look at us, so poor our house is completely bare! Do you know how to manage a household? Just look at those awful relatives! What? You can’t? Why didn’t you say so sooner? Move aside! I’ll do it!
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A Laid-Back College Guy Travels to Ancient Times to Raise a Husband 咸鱼男大穿到古代养夫郎
[Transmigration, cozy farming and everyday life in the early chapters, career growth in the officialdom later, with child-rearing] Xi Wang wakes up one day and discovers that he has transmigrated. Before transmigrating, Xi Wang was a university student at an agricultural college. His family had a little money, his parents doted on him, and he had an older brother eighteen years his senior who was obsessed with him. If nothing unexpected happened, Xi Wang could sponge off his parents for the firs
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My Top Scholar Little Husband 我的状元小夫郎
Shen Yuheng did not belong in this world, but he found a reason to stay. He first met the young man when he took pity on him and bought him. The two farmed, sold meals, and opened a shop, and their lives steadily improved. Shen Yuheng believed in equality for all, and his young husband learned a great deal from him. He let go of the old, rotten ideas, opened a school, and sat the imperial examinations. Through his own efforts, he raised the status of young men like himself. His young husband kep
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A Country Boy's Path to Becoming Chancellor 农家哥儿的丞相之路
Li Nan is a ger. To escape Taohuawu, he stops at nothing, abandoning his husband and leaving home. Step by step, he rises to become a prime minister. He conceals his identity to enter officialdom, marries a junjun, overturns his cannon-fodder fate, and becomes the Heavenly Dao's new favorite. [Reader's Guide] 1. A male-led career story 4. Rural life in the early chapters, officialdom later on 5. Plot-focused
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The Top Scholar from the Richest Family 首富家的状元郎
Zhou Yu had always thought that, given his temperament, he would be alone for the rest of his life. He never expected his aunt to take it upon herself to arrange a marriage for him. When he got home, he found the bride sitting upright on the edge of the bed, waiting for him. His already displeased expression turned ashen the moment he lifted the veil. The bride was a man! Later… Zhou Yu: This is great! Kiss me, darling! Zhou Yu: I’m unhappy. Jin Li: Say that again? Zhou Yu, cowering: I’m happy,
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Ming Dynasty Natives Versus Transmigrators 皇明土著大战穿越众
Current plot: A newcomer to officialdom enters the inner circle as a pawn, but refuses to settle for mediocrity and wants to break free of his constraints. By chance, he gets caught up in turmoil on the frontier, where three hundred battered soldiers rout thirty thousand northern invaders. Zheng Zhi, a household retainer of the Zhen Ding Guard under the Ming rear army's Governor's Office, dreams of himself sixty years in the future. From then on, the Ming Dynasty gains a peerless talent in both
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Peach Blossoms Bloom Outside the Young Master’s Door 哥儿门前桃花开
[Transmigration + Guy + Food + Imperial Exams + 1v1 HE] When he opened his eyes, modern food blogger Su He had transmigrated into the body of a pitiful young man in ancient times who had been forced to jump into a river. He had become the price his greedy stepmother accepted to sell him to an old man. At his most desperate, the cool and upright scholar Shen Yan rescued him. To survive, Su He grabbed his sleeve without hesitation. “Marry me, then sign a deed severing ties with my family.” With a
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Farming: A Straight Guy Transmigrates to Another World and Is Forced to Marry a Husband 种田：直男穿越异世后被迫娶夫郎
Synopsis: Cheng Yan, a grad student from a wealthy family, is driving back to the lab when a child suddenly darts into the road. He sees his life flash before his eyes. When he opens them again, he’s in a strange world. A thatched hut, empty pockets, and not even a rat would stick around. Cheng Yan doesn’t want to work hard. He just wants to laze around. But fate may be an ugly mutt that just loves messing with handsome men... Cheng Yan only saved a man on a whim, yet somehow people forced
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